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Sally Mann

Sally Mann has photographed portraits and landscapes in the American South since the 1970s. She pulls from a wide range of subjects, although her best known works feature her young children and her husband. She documented not only their ordinary lives, but also their intimate, naked moments — giving the familial pictures a sexual charge. Recently, Mann has turned her camera toward darker subjects such as suicide, decay and death, both in the natural world and in human life.

In 2001, Time Magazine nominated Mann as the "Photographer of the Year," a distinction that makes sense given the beauty and power of Mann's black and white photographs.

Born 1951
Hometown Lexington, VA
Lives and Works Virginia
Education
MFA, Creative Writing, Hollins College, Roanoke, VA, 1975
BA, Hollins College, Roanoke, VA, 1974
Permanent Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
San Francisco Museum of Art, CA
Cleveland Museum of Art, OH
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
The National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

Representing Galleries

Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY

SHOWS

Gagosian Gallery

Paris
Jan 25 2017 - Mar 25 2017

Remembered Light

Gagosian Gallery


Sep 22 2016 - Oct 29 2016

REMEMBERED LIGHT: CY TWOMBLY IN LEXINGTON
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